MicRoN Open House & Symposium 2025

Ryan McMillan is a fifth-year graduate student in biophysics, co-advised by Professors Wesley Wong and Peng Yin. He develops methods for multiplexed protein visualization with super-resolution imaging. He’s always excited about new applications of these methods, so please send him an email if you think your research could benefit from this technology!

Chris Morrow is a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. William Mair's group at the Harvard School of Public Health where he uses fluorescence microscopy and C. elegans to study why animals age.

Muhammad Ahmad is a final year Ph.D. candidate in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences program, working in the Dr. Norbert Perrimon's Lab. His research focuses on how nutrients influence hormone signaling and lipid metabolism. He has developed functional assays for glucagon signaling and carried out genome-wide CRISPR-Cas9 screens and developed imaging based systems to uncover regulators of GPCR signaling and lipid droplet biology. These approaches reveal new mechanisms linking nutrient sensing to energy storage, with implications for metabolic disease

Peter Back is a postdoctoral fellow in the Dvorin Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital. He is studying cell division of the malaria parasite, using genetic tools and super resolution microscopy to understand the molecular details. Peter obtained his PhD in Molecular Biology at UCLA, where he discovered novel compartments and functions for a specialized organelle in the related parasite Toxoplasma gondii. His overall research interests lie in the fundamental cell biology of understudied organisms, particularly those that cause human disease

Dharmendra conducted his PhD in Anindya Ghosh Roy`s lab at the National Brain Research Center in India, where he studied the regulation of microtubule cytoskeleton in C. elegans mechanosensory neurons. He joined the Engle lab at Boston Children’s Hospital/HMS in July 2022

Jessica Dixon is a 4th year Neuroscience PhD candidate at Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Gilliam Fellow, and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Program (NSF-GRFP) Fellow. Her research in the Goodrich lab focuses on how glia and neurons work together to build the nervous system in the inner ear.